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Title
La Fiesta air race at Mines Field, ca.1936
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1936
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of La Fiesta air race at Mines Field, ca.1936. A crowd of people sit behind wire fences in the foreground while officers and camera men observe the race from beyond the fence. Planes fly over the air field at center. A large figure of a Mexican man in a sombrero stands at the center of the air field while a row of trees and hills stands across the far side in the distance.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m13037
USC-2-1-1-13189 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36691
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13037
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36691.jpg
Subject
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Airplane racing
Mines Field
Los Angeles Airport
Transportation--Air--Aviation Meets
Airport features
Time Period
circa 1936
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36691 [Accession number]
CHS-36691 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 454 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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